![]() ![]() ![]() His Jaguar goes flying over the guardrail of the high-speed highway he was driving on and crashes on the titular concrete island below. It's the shortest and most difficult book in the series.Ĭoncrete Island is the story of Robert Maitland (Ballard loved naming his protagonists "Robert" for some reason), a wealthy architect that crashes his car in the opening paragraph. Immortal British author J.G Ballard explored those almost fifty years ago in his urban disaster trilogy, which Concrete Island is a part of. Long before Facebook and iPhones invented (maybe long before you were born), the great minds of the twentieth century were anticipating the perils of modern living. ![]() I'm sure you've heard those a thousand times. Mental health gurus (and click-bait websites) are lamenting the end of privacy of our increasingly connected world, the happiness-obsessed corporate culture encouraging us to forsake our personal lives, yadda, yadda. The idea that modern existence is making us miserable is very popular nowadays. ![]()
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